Plastic overshoot day report 2024
Plastic Overshoot Day marks the point when the amount of plastic waste generated exceeds the world’s capacity to manage it, resulting in environmental pollution. In 2024, the global Plastic Overshoot Day
Pollution
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House panel unhappy over pollution
PARADIP: The House panel on environment expressed dissatisfaction over inability of Paradip Port Trust, IOCL, Paradeep Phosphates Ltd in controlling industrial pollution in the area.
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Stop dumping waste at Assagao, Mapusa civic body told
The Goa State Pollution Control Board (GSPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to Mapusa Municipal Council (MMC) in connection with environmental pollution on the Assagao Plateau and its vicinity. The Assagao Communidade and residents in the locality had objected to the dumping and burning of garbage by MMC on Assagao hill. Acting on this, the GSPCB had directed MMC to immediately stop dumping of
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Dont buy our coal
<p>John Gordon believes a song can get people thinking. He spends the better part of a year teaching musicians from Australia’s aboriginal communities modern recording techniques. An experience that brought him in touch with environmental problems. Ruhi Kandhari caught up with the protest songwriter who was in Delhi to promote his song, Australia—Whore of the world.
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Equitable economic growth challenge for Asian countries
Ensuring equitable economic growth and protecting the environment will be the most crucial challenges facing the Asian countries in the coming years, acclaimed academics said at a symposium yesterday. Policymakers must come up with strategies from a new angle, unlike the traditional approach to growth which is not sustainable, they said at a symposium titled "Imagining Another Future for Asia:
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Green Group Accuses Apple Of Lax Supplier Oversight
iPhone maker Apple was criticized by Chinese green groups for lax corporate oversight of its suppliers in China, leading to poor environmental and work safety standards that poisoned dozens of factory workers. Apple, which announced blockbuster profits and a dazzling outlook for iPhone and iPad sales earlier this week, continues to be dogged by accusations of aggressive pricing and secretive su
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Mamata steps in to save Belur Math from pollution
KOLKATA, 9 FEB: Indian Railways will do everything needful to save the main temple at Belur Math from getting damaged due to pollution, said railway minister Miss Mamata Banerjee today. She was speaking at the foundation stone laying programme of the 1-km long new railway line between Belur and Belur Math station at Belur this evening. Miss Banerjee said during her last visit to Belur Math, th
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Mobile tower radiations: New kid in pollution block
KOLKATA, 14 FEB: The West Bengal Pollution Control Board (WBPCB) receives several complaints against radiations from mobile network towers, but it is unable to act on them as it has not been delegated any power to deal with electro-pollution. The WBPCB officials said that harmful effects of non-ionizing radiation from telecommunication towers is a much-debated topic and had been adequately resear
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Green hurdles for 16 coal blocks cleared
New Delhi: Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh would dilute environmental norms to allow 16 coal projects to take off, coal minister Sriprakash Jaiswal said on Tuesday. Jairam Ramesh had not taken a decision by the evening but he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh apprising him of the meeting between the two.
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MoEF lifts moratorium on new projects in 8 areas
The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF),currently under attack for being allegedly too rigid in providing clearances to projects, has lifted an earlier moratorium in this regard on eight more critically polluted areas. However, the MoEF has indicated that the respective state governments and pollution control boards need to adhere to strict implementation of action plan to contain pollut
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Ramesh softens stand, 'no-go' projects to get green nod
Has Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh, who till recently was known for his green